Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chris Haywood (born 24 July 1948) is an English-born, Australian-based film and television actor/producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Haywood, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Way, My Way
2024
as Bill
The charming and captivating true story of an Australian man's transformative experience walking the Camino de Santiago, and the people he meets along...

The Aussie Boys
2022
as Jack
Come and take a trip 'Down Under' and witness seven stories about the lives and loves of these men and boys from across Australia. From historical beg...

Love You Like That
2021
as Gerard
Cupids arrow has hit the coastal town of Seafront Sands. A lonely soul will discover a secret about the love we all share for the first time.

Sweet River
2021
as Nigel
Hannah's search for her son's body leads her to sleepy Billins, where her investigations uncover more than she expected and threaten to expose towns d...

Dirt Music
2020
as Warwick
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement ...

Skewwhiff
2019
as Bill
An elderly man insists on granting his wife’s wish of taking their car through a drive-thru car wash.

Boar
2018
as Jack
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. I...

Mountain of Gold
2016
as Capt. Ford
The story of Almayer, a Dutch trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century. His dream of finding a mythical gold mountain ...

The Dam
2016
as Jack
A lifelong friendship is under siege when two mature Australian men visit the monolithic dam that defined their young lives and are confronted by feel...

The Spa
2015
as Don
When retiree Don declares he no longer wants the new spa he’s just ordered, Ivan the deliveryman suspects there’s more to the story than Don is willin...

Love Is Now
2014
as Ben
Love is Now is the intriguing and mysterious drama chronicling a summer of love for experienced photographer Audrey (Van Der Boom) and aspiring snappe...

Return to Nim's Island
2013
as Grant
Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and...

Dangerous Remedy
2012
as Sir Arthur Rylah
The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put...

The Interviewer
2012
Thomas Howell gets more than he's bargained for in a job interview at a prestigious law firm; an insult about his tie, a rendition of Harry Potter and...

Swerve
2012
as Armstrong
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhu...

Busong
2011
Punay was born with wounds on her feet so that she cannot step on the earth. Her brother, Angkarang, carries her through a hammock, as he searches the...

Sleeping Beauty
2011
as Man 2
A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.

Savages Crossing
2011
as Chris
When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from...

Beneath Hill 60
2010
as Colonel Wilson Rutledge
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. I...

The Extraordinary Tale Of William Buckley
2010
as John Morgan
Presented by Michael Cathcart, this is one of Australia's great untold stories of escaped convict, William Buckley's amazing story of survival - livin...

The Boys Are Back
2009
as Tom
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a pre...

Salvation
2009
as Architect
Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her bran...

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
2009
as Robert Knopwood
Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core....

8
2008
as Lunch Guest (segment "The Water Diary")
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challen...

The View from Greenhaven
2008
as Dashiell
A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Lockout
2007
as Himself
In 1929 one of the darkest chapters in Australian industrial history was written in blood and bitterness on the Northern Coalfields of NSW, a tale tha...
The Tank
2007
In drought stricken outback Australia a woman fights to save the farm and her marriage.

Hotel Vladivostok
2006
as Man
In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on ...

Solo
2006
as Arkan
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm o...

Jindabyne
2006
as Gregory
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.

Human Touch
2005
as Edward
To try to raise money for her choir's trip to China, Anna poses nude for an ageing artist and upon seeing the finished results goes on a journey of se...

Jewboy
2005
as Sam
A young orthodox man searches for his place within his family and the rest of the world.

BlackJack: Sweet Science
2004
as Wayne Tippet
Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.
The Widower
2004
as Neville
Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. When Neville is diagnosed as terminally ill his son B...
Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
2003
as Twink
An unsolved crime, a retiring cop and a dying crim determined not to take his regrets to the grave.

Subterano
2003
as Cleary
Eleven souls, trapped in an underground carpark, are attacked by deadly, remote controlled toys. Only a few will survive.

Paradise Found
2003
as Charles Arnaud
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art s...

Black and White
2002
as Det-Sgt Karskens
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation M...

The Nugget
2002
as Doug
'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilar...

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002
as Oscar
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impre...
My Husband, My Killer
2001
as George Cannellis
Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.

Innocence
2000
as Minister
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician And...

Muggers
2000
as George Roy Rogers
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transp...

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
as Clayton Strawn
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Change Of Heart
1999
as Harry

Kiss or Kill
1997
as Detective Hummer
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After ac...

Blackrock
1997
as Det. Sgt. Wilansky
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates ...

One Way Ticket
1997
as Bertie
Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murder and looks like he will be spending the rest of ...

Shine
1996
as Sam
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Lust and Revenge
1996
This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's ...
Cabbie of the Year
1996
Cabbie of the Year.

Muriel's Wedding
1994
as Coach Ken Blundell
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

Touch Me
1993
as Claude
Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.

Alex
1993
as Mr. Jack
It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 196...

The Nun and the Bandit
1992
as Michael
Outlaws kidnap their 14-year-old cousin and hold her for ransom. The girl is being chaperoned by a visiting nun, who refuses to abandon her during the...

The Media Project
1991
as Chris McEnroe
A group of people working in film and television are gathered at a dinner party to discuss Australian media coverage of the Gulf War.

The Media Project
1991
Producer
A group of people working in film and television are gathered at a dinner party to discuss Australian media coverage of the Gulf War.

Aya
1991
as Mac
Aya, a young Japanese war bride, arrives in a small Australian town during the 1950s. She and her husband, Frank, are very much in love. Yet somehow A...

A Woman's Tale
1991
as Jonathan
Uplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead a...

Sweet Talker
1991
as Gerald Bostock
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an ol...
Plead Guilty, Get A Bond
1990
A young white city lawyer arrives in a small Queensland country town to represent an Aboriginal lady in court. She faces minor charges of assault and ...

Quigley Down Under
1990
as Major Ashley-Pitt
American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley find...

Golden Braid
1990
as Bernard
When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past an...

Island
1989
as Janis
Island is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging from extreme passion to fear, leading to murder - from ...

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
1988
as Arno
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a r...

Emerald City
1988
as Mike McCord
A couple move to Sydney from Melbourne, and soon become lured by the bright lights of the big city. Colin, the scriptwriter husband, is corrupted by h...

The Tale of Ruby Rose
1988
as Henry Rose
The year is 1933. Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) is an Australian woman living with her Welsh immigrant husband Henry (Chris Haywood) in the Tasmanian hig...

The First Kangaroos
1988
as James Giltinan
The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.

Manifesto
1988
as Wango
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small...
The Bit Part
1987
as Michael Thornton
Career counsellor Michael Thornton decides to change his career and become an actor. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television a...

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
1987
as Stationmaster
A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cros...

Don Quixote of La Mancha
1987
Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read,...

Dogs in Space
1986
as Chainsaw man
The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a ...

Double Sculls
1986
as Paul Weber
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

Malcolm
1986
as Willy
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail...

Malcolm
1986
Unit Manager
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail...

Call Me Mr. Brown
1985
as Peter Macari
Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extort...

Burke & Wills
1985
as Tom McDonagh
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

Wills & Burke
1985
as Constable
Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross t...

A Street to Die
1985
as Col Turner
An Australian who has fought in Vietnam blames Agent Orange for his cancer, and sues for compensation.

The Coca-Cola Kid
1985
as Kim
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley o...

Strikebound
1984
as Wattie Doig
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-...

Razorback
1984
as Benny Baker
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

The Great Gold Swindle
1984
as Peter Duvnjak
The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.

Waterfront
1984
as Ernie Donaldson
Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & ...

Man of Flowers
1983
as David
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching prett...

The Clinic
1983
as Dr. Eric Linden
A comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic.

The Return of Captain Invincible
1983
as Maitre D'
In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Austral...

Lonely Hearts
1982
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker

Running on Empty
1982
as Photographer
Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his head in racin...

Attack Force Z
1982
as Able Seaman A.D. 'Sparrer' Bird
Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos mu...

Freedom
1982
as Phil
Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blamin...

The Man from Snowy River
1982
as Curly
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to...

Heatwave
1982
as Peter Houseman
During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of ...

...Maybe This Time
1981
as Salesman
Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns h...

Breaker Morant
1980
as Cpl. Sharp
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as sca...

Dead Man's Float
1980
as Thug
A strange warning is followed by near disaster when a speedboat slices John's surfboard in half as his friends look on in horror. His curiosity arouse...

In Search of Anna
1979
as Jerry
Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road hoping to find her and makes a friend along the way...

Newsfront
1978
as Chris Hewitt
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing tim...
Out of It
1977
as Warren
Larry (Glenn Mason), Warren (Chris Haywood) and Tony (George Spartels) are three friends living the industrialised western suburbs of Sydney, bored by...

Deathcheaters
1976
as Butcher
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.

The Trespassers
1976
as Sandy
In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two woman meet and become friends.

Ivanhoe
1975
as (voice)
A young knight returns to England to discover that King Richard the Lionheart has been replaced by the tyrannical Prince John, while Lady Rowena, his ...

The Removalists
1975
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to esca...

The Great MacArthy
1975
as Warburton
Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South M...

The Cars That Ate Paris
1974
as Darryl
After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as th...

Body Blow
N/A
as Sampson
Disgraced cop Aiden is thrust into Sydney’s neon-soaked gay district, where a chance encounter with Cody—a seductive bartender and sex worker—sparks a...